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Hi!

I’m trying to check if the previous url contains ‘mywebsite.com’ . So it doesn’t matter what page.
So mywebsite.com/pricing needs to work as well.

If the previous url contains mywebsite.com the visitor needs to be redirected to /dashboard.
If the previous url doesn’t contain mywebsite.com the visitor needs to be redirected to /invoices.

This is my code but it doesn’t work.


$w.onReady(function() {
var referrer = wixWindow.referrer;
console.log(referrer);

var check = referrer.indexOf('mywebsite.com') ? "true": "false";
console.log("check = "+ check)

if (check === "true") {
   wixLocation.to('/invoices')
}

if (check === "false") {
    wixLocation.to('/dashboard')
}
})
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You are using the referrer function from Wix Window API, so did you check the examples already provided in the API Reference for it?

https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/wix-window.html#referrer

referrer
Gets the HTTP referrer header field.

Description
The referrer is the address of the previous web page that the user was on before arriving at the current page, typically by clicking a link.

Note
When visitors move from page to page within your site, the referrer property does not contain the address of the page the visitor came from. This is because Wix sites are built as single page applications. To get the previous page a visitor was visiting within your site, you can use wix-storage to store the visitor’s current page and retrieve the visitor’s previous page.

Examples

Get the referrer information

import wixWindow from 'wix-window';

// ... 

let referrer = wixWindow.referrer; // "http://somesite.com"

Get the previous page within a Wix site

This example demonstrates how to use session storage to know which page is the page a site visitor previously visited. The code below needs to be placed in the Site tab so that it runs on all your site’s pages. The code retrieves the URL of the page a visitor previously visited from session storage. It then stores the URL of the vistor’s current page in session storage. When the visitor navigates to another page, this stored URL is retrieved as the previous page URL.

// In Site tab

import {session} from 'wix-storage';
import wixLocation from 'wix-location';

let previousPageURL;

$w.onReady(function () {
  previousPageURL = session.getItem("page");
  session.setItem("page", wixLocation.url);
});

If you want to get the previous page url, then take a look at this example here which will show you how in a ready made example.
https://www.grampsworkbench.com/Examples/Back-Button

Or for a more in detail one here.

A simple back to previous page button would be something like this.

import wixLocation from 'wix-location';
import wixWindow from 'wix-window';

export function button1_click(event, $w) {
    const url = wixWindow.referrer;
    wixLocation.to(url);
}

So you would need to be checking the value stored in your storage and then do a simple if go to this page, else go to that page.

You can also have a look at using the baseUrl function from Wix Location API instead.

baseUrl
Gets the base URL of the current page.

Description
Premium sites:

700×33 2.51 KB

Free sites:

699×31 2.45 KB

If the site is not yet published, the function returns null.

Examples

Get the base URL of the current page

import wixLocation from 'wix-location';

// ...

let baseUrl = wixLocation.baseUrl;
// Premium site: "https://domain.com/"
// Free site: "https://user.wix-sites.com/zoo/"